Bernadette Joy
Jul 28, 2017 · 2 min read

Thank you for this. People argue about test scores and curriculum in schools and 21st century skills and it is all for absolutely nothing if the basics are not learned and I do not mean reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmatic. No, the basics are empathy, eating, activity. In an age when stress and life style diseases are an epidemic, where we have device attachment issues and connection addiction, when we live in a house of warped mirrors so that our children learn to loathe themselves and fear others. When we (Americans) used up our share of the planets resources in 1945 and have been hogging from the future in the biggest Ponzi Pyramid scheme and to strut around and feel we earned it and, even worse, it is our manifest destiny, our birthright to consume.

Oh dear, I did go on a bit and I know maybe you are thinking, really, the erotica writer getting on a soapbox like it is pedestal. Well, stop right there. Sex is another appetite that is warped these days. Once upon a long lost time, sex was a gift, it took us into the realm of gods and goddesses, We saw the beauty then, and no one needed to photoshop it into existence. In the glow, we were transported, elevated.

We do have so very much to learn and I am quite sure it was all learned long ago and somehow forgotten or mislaid (oops a bit of a pun there!)

So, I’ll stop and just say thank you. You are courageous to stand up and stand for. We need more women I am not holding out much hope for the men. Look at the stand up comic we have running the show now. Too had we don’t have the comics and the actors audition for the job instead of these dreadful elections (and damn but a hard man is good to find or have I gotten that tits over teakettle around again).

It is very hot this summer here and bound to be hotter still. Carry on, one and all, stand for something, stand up and be counted and accountable.

    Bernadette Joy

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